Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], August 22 (ANI): Karnataka government on Friday issued guidelines for the usage of oxygen after an expert committee ruled that there was excessive use of oxygen as a treatment for COVID-19 patients.
Kolkata/Siliguri/Howrah (West Bengal) [India] Aug 22 (ANI/PRNewswire): 54-year-old Abdus Samad from West Bengal, who had a history of severe jaundice and bile duct cancer, was referred to Manipal Hospitals, Old Airport Road, for further treatment.
Washington [US], Aug 22 (ANI/Sputnik): The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating a data breach that may have exposed the identities of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients in the state of South Dakota, the Rapid City Journal reported.
Kathmandu [Nepal], August 21 (ANI): Three Indian pharmaceutical companies have started supplying Nepal with life-saving anti-viral Remdesivir to be used for the treatment of COVID-19 patients.
New Delhi [India], August 21 (ANI): India has touched another peak of the highest recoveries of COVID-19 cases in a single day as 62,282 patients have recovered and been discharged in the past 24 hours, said the Union health ministry on Friday.
New Delhi [India], August 21 (ANI): Patients affected by Kala-Azar, scientifically called visceral leishmaniasis (VL), one of the most neglected tropical diseases may soon find relief in an oral nanomedicine from India, according to Department of Science and Technology (DST).
Kochi (Kerala) [India], Aug 21 (ANI): The Kerala High Court on Friday dismissed a petition filed by opposition leader Ramesh Chennithala seeking directions to the police not to collect call detail records (CDRs) of COVID-19 patients and persons likely infected under quarantine.
Washington D.C. [USA], August 21 (ANI): Ten post-mortem examinations performed on patients with confirmed COVID-19 found that all patients had lung injuries and early scarring of the lungs as a result of the virus, as well as injury to their kidneys.
Panaji (Goa) [India], Aug 21 (ANI): Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Thursday interacted with coronavirus-recovered patients in a bid to create awareness against the social stigma attached to the disease.
Geneva [Switzerland], Aug 21 (ANI/Sputnik): The number of COVID-19 cases globally has grown by more than 263,000 in the past 24 hours, while over 6,500 patients have died in the same period of time, the World Health Organisation's (WHO) data revealed on late Thursday.
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], August 21 (ANI): Around 6 lakh people in Hyderabad, which includes symptomatic and asymptomatic patients and also recently recovered individuals, could have been infected by COVID-19 in 35 days, says a study released by Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biolog
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], Aug 20 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh on Thursday reported 9,393 new COVID-19 cases taking the total number of cases to 3,25,396.